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Google's Bob Moog Tribute A Synthesized Hit
latimes.com 4 days, 17 hours agoFans of the synth pioneer Bob Moog's eponymous instruments pay thousands and thousands of dollars for the real artifacts. But Google users woke up today to a fully-functioning software take on a classic Moog synth -- affectionately called the "Goog" -- in their browser window. The occasion was Moog's 78th birthday, and as Internet time-sucks go, this one is compelling. One can play a four-octave range; tweak the filter, mixer and oscillator to create new sounds; and a four-track virtual tape deck records tr
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Library Of Congress Names New Entries For National Recording Registry
latimes.com 5 days, 6 hours agoDonna Summer's throbbing 1977 hit "I Feel Love"; Prince's 1984 "Purple Rain" album; the first known commercial sound recording, dating to 1888; the Sugar Hill Gang's watershed rap record "Rapper's Delight"; and 1930s and '40s news reports and speech excerpts from journalist Edward R. Murrow's "I Can Hear It Now" radio program are among 25 sound recordings newly enshrined in the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry, library officials announced Wednesday. Among the other new entries are Dolly Part
















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